Business planning: Tips for setting business goals

Whether you are starting a new business or have spent years running your business, spending time focusing on business planning and setting business goals can have a huge impact on your success.

In this section you’ll find plenty of business planning ideas not only on business goal setting, but also on how to achieve your business goals once they have been set. We give advice on setting long term business goals, as well as breaking your business goals into smaller objectives.

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Setting business goals articles

• Seven tips for effective goal setting

  The New Year means it’s time to set new goals. These tips for effectibe goal setting are based on neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) to help make your goals more lively, fun, and effective!

  • 01 January 10
  • Deborah Keep
  • 8 Comments

• How being organised helps you set goals

  Do you feel too overwhelmed by lack of time, space or energy to set goals? Breaking the process down and being organised at every step will see you setting goals in next to no time.

  • 13 February 09
  • Roz Howland
  • 8 Comments

• Targeting key business milestones

  Success is not about working long hours and weekends, it’s about actively targeting key business milestones in the form of key, or ‘springboard’ events. Here’s how these events can propel your business forward.

  • 12 January 09
  • Philip Shaw
  • 4 Comments

• Goal setting strategy: Aim high

  Several years ago I took a stab at managing a pop band. They were good musicians. I was an okay manager. Together we failed abysmally. I think I know why. We didn't have the correct goal setting strategy.

  • 22 January 08
  • Robert Gerrish
  • 23 Comments

• Business deadlines: Let yourself off the hook

  In December, the world of the solo business owner can go somewhat wobbly. Sound familiar? Thought so. Welcome to what I consider the most uncomfortable few weeks of the silly season. I suggest it’s time to let some business deadlines go.

  • 27 November 07
  • Robert Gerrish
  • 27 Comments

• How to achieve goals

  This time last year I took a trip to Borneo, where I climbed south east Asia's largest mountain, Mount Kinabalu. I learned a great deal about how to achieve goals from the experience.

  • 29 May 07
  • Sam Leader
  • 12 Comments

• Get out of your comfort zone!

  Comfort zones are insidious. They keep us doing the same old things, the way we’ve always done them. After all, when was the last time you thought about taking your business to new and heady heights, but didn’t actually get any further?

  • 22 January 07
  • Megan Tough
  • 9 Comments

• An achievable vision for your solo business

  Is your vision for your business acheivable? Only then can it keep you motivated and focused. Here's how a vision that's grounded in reality can be of real use to your solo business.

  • 29 November 06
  • Paul J. Morris
  • 2 Comments

• Setting goals: Turning dreams into reality

  There is a big difference between dreams and goals. Here's what to consider when it comes to setting goals and turning dreams into reality!

  • 01 November 06
  • Linda Anderson
  • 9 Comments

• Setting big hairy long and short term business goals

  In the heady arena of business strategy, consultants find wonderful acronyms for the work they do. Let me introduce one to you. It’s the BHAG – the Big Hairy Audacious Goal! Read on to find out more about setting long and short term business goals.

  • 19 May 06
  • Megan Tough
  • 8 Comments

• Self-regulation: Setting and achieving goals

  What is it that helps and hurts us when it comes to achieving our goals? Why is it so easy one day and so difficult the next? Here are three factors which play a part in self-regulation and setting and achieving goals.

  • 17 February 06
  • Ellen Jackson
  • 4 Comments

• Goal setting tips for your business

  The secret to effective goal setting is to break your big objectives into manageable chunks. Here's how...

  • 29 September 05
  • Barb Clews
  • 3 Comments